Mesnard-la-Barotière is a common French, located in the department of the the Vendée and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

Mesnard-la-Barotière is a commune of 1150 inhabitants (2004) located in the North-East of the the Vendée. It belongs to the Canton of the Herbaria and the district of the Roche-sur-Yon (60000 hab.). Near to the agglomerations of Cholet and Nantes, it benefits from the opening-up of the department and the decentralization of the companies. Its zip code is 85500. This small town does not have so to speak a center town and constitutes a " city-dortoir" Herbaria. As in all the basin herbretais, unemployment is quasi-non-existent.

Inhabitants : Mesnardais

Origin of the name: Barroteau patronym, lords of the place in XIIe century; at the XVIIe century, the new lords are Mesnard; it is into 1768 that their name is added to that of Barotière.

Demography

History

Barotière, known as of XIIe century, was the residence of the local lords, Barroteau then Mesnard at the XVIIe century. Old castle, destroyed during the Revolution, only remain an old woman tower out of brick and a building of commun runs contiguous to the vault. In 1766, the count Alexandre Bonaventure, lord of Barotière, obtains by letter patent of the king that the ground of Barotière is set up in county of Mesnard. The commune has two churches on its territory. The old church of XIIe and XIVe centuries, abandoned at the XIXe century, found a new life since recent discovered mural frescos entirely given to the day. The second built at the end of the XIXe century, on the private funds of the count de Mesnard, is the symbol of the influence of this family on the commune throughout the XIXe century and at the beginning of the XXe century. Today, the city, primarily agricultural, sees also its future in tourism, with the installation of the base of leisures of the lake of the Cheating.

Base leisures of the Cheating

Based with Mesnard-la-Barotière, arranged site of 33 hectares to the multiple activities: lake of 17 hectares (bathe, veil, fishing, pedal boats, mini-port with electric boats), surfaces of picnic, mini golf, pedestrian paths. Pancake shop, bar, fast-food industry. Camp-site 3* of 52 sites, calm and shaded.

See too

• Common of the Vendée

External bonds

• Site of the tourist office
• Site on the Genealogy and the History of Mesnard-Maynard

• Mesnard-la-Barotière on the site of the national geographical Institute

• Mesnard-la-Barotière on the site of INSEE
• Mesnard-la-Barotière on the site of Quid
• Localization of Mesnard-la-Barotière on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Mesnard-la-Barotière on Mapquest

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